Community

Brittney Last contemplates her future while sitting with her fellow graduates at the Summerland Secondary School ceremonies last week at the Summerland Arena. Along with the diplomas, bursaries and scholarships were also awarded to the students.

The new and improved Penticton Community Centre, which opened June 6, has added several new programs to their list of summer activities.

I have been watching closely all the letters and now the vote on a correctional institute in our area. Having just finished reading Jeffrey Archer’s Prison Diaries I feel much more educated as to how these places are run. It’s not a pretty picture.

Whitney Warnock gets some last-minute help from sister Tiffany before Princess Margaret Secondary’s graduation ceremonies Wednesday at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.

Young cyclists negotiate one of the intersections at the Penticton Safety Village during Tuesday’s Safe Kid’s Canada family event at the facility operated through a community partnership.

With the weather expected to reach highs of 28 C, there will be plenty of sunshine to go along with Penticton’s Canada Day festivities.

Payton Pye (above) inhales the fragrant aroma of the flower she and other Grade 5 classmates at Parkway Elementary, including Jaimie Price (right), were given, only to find it wasn’t quite as pleasant as she expected (below). The students were given the flowers as part of the leaving ceremonies Wednesday for those moving on to other schools in September.

Members of the Kootenay Connection band (left to right) Greg Sahlstrom, Helen Bullock and Harvey Muller perform at the gospel service during the recent Summerland Blue Grass Festival at the Summerland Rodeo Grounds.

Jesse Moore rides his skateboard along the Skaha Lake boardwalk. Moore was among the Skaha Lake Middle School students who took part in the second annual Longboard Relay in conjunction with the South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Injury Society to help remind riders to stay safe and wear helmets.

A group of Penticton Secondary students will be spending a chunk of their summer far from home, helping improve the lives of children at an African orphanage.